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The Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative takes wastewater data and uses it to model population infection levels in the US. Follow @michael_hoerger on twitter or go to https://pmc19.com/data/ for weekly updates.
The Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative takes wastewater data and uses it to model population infection levels in the US. Follow @michael_hoerger on twitter or go to https://pmc19.com/data/ for weekly updates.
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Go to https://biobotstg.wpengine.com/data/covid-19 and search for your state or territory, and then use PMC's conversion chart to get a more local and current estimate of how many people have COVID in your area. Big thanks to Dr. Michael Hoerger for letting people use his graphics.
See https://pandemicpatients.org/home/covid-19-resources/lc-pcc/ for more info about LONG Covid and a disturbingly extensive list of documented post-COVID conditions.
See https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/weekly-covid-deaths?tab=chart for weekly COVID death reports.
Excess mortality: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.08.16.22278800v2.full
Outcomes get worse with each infection: https://nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02051-3
Updated boosters try to match currently circulating COVID variants, so they're very worth getting! They don't make you invincible, though. In the driving metaphor, getting a booster is like getting your breaks checked, or something??
CDC's free testing locator: https://testinglocator.cdc.gov/Search
Walgreens (https://www.walgreens.com/findcare/covid19/otc ), CVS (https://www.cvs.com/shop/merch/at-home-covid-tests-education?cid=ps_covhometest&gclid=Cj0KCQjwk6SwBhDPARIsAJ59GwdmLqxtNmWGTFbuyPOsgROthJRAwhB5X9vBhYrc8_W9ReFEoxRSuqYaAgh-EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds ), and Fast Lab (https://fastlabtech.com/nasal-swab-test/ )will bill your insurance for test kits, potentially free.
Disposable respirator recs: https://www.reddit.com/r/Masks4All/wiki/index/
https://www.testtheplanet.org/
Mask reviews and info from @masknerd.bsky.social: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3fF_rzkmZD0ufN685YE7lg
Elastomeric respirator info from Lola Germs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1urC9zg-xxX5bLHSpyEytGp96Q2AOounUM-DQGRmRzHA/edit#heading=h.kug61lpwr9e4